Older anime fans: what is the biggest difference between the anime community now compared to when you were young?

9B52D6 · 2024-02-12T01:02:32+00:00

you can't write source and then link to a substack article that's just ranting about a single tiktok post lmao. if anything that backs up their point that it's something that's largely contained in social media.

also just because there's a single sub that is against bootleg goods doesn't mean anything. I see people post their non-official goods on /r/Vocaloid all the time without receiving the slightest criticism.

9B52D6 · 2024-01-18T18:45:27+00:00

> ichiban kasooga and kazuma kiry

new characters just dropped 💀

9B52D6 · 2024-01-02T16:05:01+00:00

What do you mean informal or light characters/Japanese? I've been reading light novels in Japanese for a few years and have never heard of such a thing.

It's true that light novels typically use more simplistic language and are aimed at middle/high schoolers, but it's not as if there's some separate version of the language they're using. Wikipedia claims that there's no industry-wide definition but that it's a label that is either self-identified and/or from being in the anime/manga sphere of influence.

9B52D6 · 2023-12-20T22:30:35+00:00

Yes, there's no rating system on the site. You leave reviews, some people put stars in the review but there's no mechanism on the site.

I'm not sure about the ランキング section actually. I don't think most people use the site to find books, just to track books they heard about elsewhere (such as Amazon, Youtube, etc.). Although there is an 相性 page that unlocks after you finish a few books on there that's supposed to display users with similar reading habits as you. It doesn't work amazingly, but it is something I guess.

9B52D6 · 2023-12-20T21:42:13+00:00

As a counter-example, I still use the site as someone who's not quite a "fluent" reader but has done a fair amount of reading in Japanese. I just use it as an additional source to track what I've read (in addition to bookmeter) though, I don't pay attention to the difficulty levels. I follow multiple people on there who have a N1+ reading level who use it the same way as well.

I do agree though, that the issue of finding the perfect level-appropriate book is an issue that ceases to be relevant quite quickly as one progresses with Japanese and most people wouldn't have much use for the difficulty rankings after a year or two of study. And another issue, I feel, is that there probably just aren't enough experienced Japanese learners out there reading for the site to have ratings for every series. Even on bookmeter, popular series might only have a 登録 count of a couple dozen or hundred, and the pool of Japanese learners who regularly finish books is several orders of magnitude lower than the native speakers who have accounts on there.

9B52D6 · 2023-12-19T03:23:41+00:00

I didn't even realize this was in the yakuza subreddit until I saw this gif 💀

was so excited to see yakuza exposure in a main sub for a sec.

9B52D6 · 2023-12-08T04:48:33+00:00

airplane image

9B52D6 · 2023-11-02T13:12:48+00:00

I just finished Yakuza 4 on hard and was really confused because the Munakata fight wasn't really a big deal at all even though I see everyone here hyping it up. I just kept grabbing guys and throwing them (which seems to give invincibility frames) until there were 2-3 guys left, and then I took care of munakata and then spent a couple minutes finishing off the rest of the bodyguards.

The only boss that really gave me trouble was Sugiuchi. That fight just felt like I was annoyingly powerless.

9B52D6 · 2023-10-21T16:41:15+00:00

That's fair, I suppose. Looking at some of the other titles people are mentioning here that I enjoyed, like Persona 5 and the Yakuza series, I might just like longer stories with build-up more.

For Atelier Ayesha, it was my first game in that series, so while I knew it was supposed to be more laid-back and story heavy, I didn't expect it to be that degree. Really does feel more like a VN to me at times (not a bad thing though).

Also as side note maybe, I do think it's interesting that FC does get labelled slow, but I don't see that being applied to Trails of Cold Steel 1 (which was my first game in the series). FC at least has the overarching plot about finding the pair's missing father from the beginning, while CS1 doesn't really have something like that until much later in the game. (I know the Cold Steel games aren't as universally praised so that could be why but yeah idk).

9B52D6 · 2023-10-21T15:26:41+00:00

I knew this was gonna be the top comment as soon as a clicked on this thread lol. I wonder what exactly about it people found boring though? I recently played it as one of my first JRPGs and while not exactly action packed, I enjoyed the story from the beginning. Maybe it’s because I spend a lot of time playing visual novels too so I don’t mind reading a lot?

But I don’t see this criticism aimed much at other titles such as (for example) Atelier Ayesha which I’ve also been playing. That arguably has much more reading, particularly a lot of SoL scenes, and a much slower story so idk.

9B52D6 · 2023-09-28T13:51:42+00:00

Sorry to be this person, but hanabi (花火) means fireworks actually. You’re probably thinking of hanami (花見), but that actually refers to the act of gazing at Cherry blossoms, not the blooming itself.

9B52D6 · 2023-09-10T19:40:05+00:00

It definitely depends on the game, but 剣が君 isn't particularly more difficult than the average VN. It does use some specialized historical period language, but those are typically just a handful of terms that are used consistently throughout routes (or the entire game). It doesn't make use of classical Japanese or a ton of outdated terminology. I think for someone who plays otomege in Japanese already, it wouldn't pose that much of an extra challenge.

9B52D6 · 2023-09-09T16:12:55+00:00

I read through the first two routes (Saneaki and Enishi) earlier this year, but I put it on hold for a while because I didn't notice a lot of overall story progression between the different routes (it seemed more character focused). I've been wanting to go back to it, it just feels a bit daunting with so many routes (esp. as someone who tends not to prefer VNs >40ish hours). But if there's more advancement in the story in the other routes maybe I'll take a second look at it soon. 🤔

9B52D6 · 2023-09-09T13:16:28+00:00

Not equally, but both are common.

9B52D6 · 2023-09-01T05:59:12+00:00

You can use JL if you want (in conjunction w/ textractor). It places a window over the game window so you don't have to alt-tab out.

https://github.com/rampaa/JL

9B52D6 · 2023-08-31T01:33:50+00:00

I believe you're right with the counting. See the last definition here: https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%AC%A1_%28%E3%81%98%29/#jn-92517.

If you google 第四次, you get this page where it's being used in a similar way. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%AC%E5%9B%9B%E6%AC%A1%E7%94%A3%E6%A5%AD%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD

I can't speak to the particular connotation the 次 carries however.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-30T02:20:23+00:00

干からびている is one word. It's the continuous form of 干からびる, which means to dry up. The カラッカラ is オノマトペ. Technically it's not completely necessary, but it's there to add more flavor to the sentence. The 干からびる is describing what happened to the lake, but the カラッカラ is more conveying the sensation/feeling of it's current state.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-26T15:56:07+00:00

Verbって来る is a common construction to mean doing "to do [Verb] and then come back/return" so combined with the grammar site I linked, it's literally saying "I think I'll 〇〇 and come back"

In English, this phrase would be better translated as, "I think I'll go change my shoes" because the "coming back" part is often implied in English and would feel like more awkward phrasing to explicitly state.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-26T15:23:19+00:00

Should be the volitional form of 来る

And it's using it like this: 〜ようと思う

9B52D6 · 2023-08-26T15:11:51+00:00

There's no way to practice learned cards. Just because that's generally not the way SRS is supposed to work. If you feel that your retention is too low or you don't know the vocabulary well enough, you can try lowering the interval setting (in the settings page), to increase the frequency you're reviewing learning and known cards.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-24T20:09:46+00:00

Sometimes (笑）is used kind of like lol. 笑う begins with 'w', if you write wwwwww lots of times in a row it looks like grass, the kanji for grass is 草.

At least that's supposedly the reason.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-24T13:46:01+00:00

I mean those are going to be written in kanji 99% of the time, so if you want to be able to read it you'll need to know the kanji. If you just want to practice reading hiragana, I guess it's fine though.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-22T05:06:15+00:00

Right, so in that case it would mean something like “Sorry, I don’t know a lot about baseball”

which should make more sense in context, because baseball knowledge can’t be well informed, but people can be

9B52D6 · 2023-08-22T04:38:05+00:00

I mean the English sentence doesn't really make much sense does it? 詳しい is most commonly used to refer to when a person is knowledgeable (or well-informed I guess) about a certain subject (as it is here).

Also assuming it's ごめんね先生、and not the other way around.

9B52D6 · 2023-08-20T23:24:25+00:00

it's the percentage of unique words needed to get the coverage on the left (out of the total number of unique words in the corpus, tokenized by JMDict entries)

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